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Quote by William Godwin
We are so curiously made that one atom put in the wrong place in o

We are so curiously made that one atom put in the wrong place in our original structure will often make us unhappy for life. – William Godwin

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My thoughts will be taken up with the future or the past, with what is to come or what has been. Of the present there is necessarily no image. – William Godwin

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Future
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There must be room for the imagination to exercise its powers we must conceive and apprehend a thousand things which we do not actually witness. – William Godwin

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Imagination
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Learning is the ally, not the adversary of genius… he who reads in a proper spirit, can scarcely read too much. – William Godwin

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Learning
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The word arse is as much god as the word face. It must be so, otherwise you cut off your god at the waist. – D.H. Lawrence

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The human body is the only machine for which there are no spare parts. – Hermann M. Biggs

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Body

That which matters hums within our guts. – Terri Guillemets, “Inner being,” 2008

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Body

Our own physical body possesses a wisdom which we who inhabit the body lack. We give it orders which make no sense. – Henry Miller

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The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else. – Umberto Eco, Travels in Hyper Reality, 1986

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Miscellaneous

The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time. – Dean Acheson

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Future

Things are coming to a pretty pass when religion is allowed to invade private life. – Lord Melbourne

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Religion

There are cases where psychoanalysis works worse than anything else. But who said that psychoanalysis was to be applied always and everywhere. – C.G. Jung

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Psychology